This article is a work of art: Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You I never really thought much about this topic, but this article picqued my curiosity. Are we (Julia community) doing enough thinking about backwards compatibility? While passively observing discussions about s…

That’s what all the concern-mongering in this thread reads like :man_shrugging: Regarding multiple dispatch and deprecations, yes, for simple renames and changes to argument types, you can do deprecations pretty easily. But those are the least interesting kinds of changes for 2.0. There’s an issue …

[Article] Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You

Internals & Design

Tamas_Papp August 16, 2020, 6:20am 3

I get the impression that breakages will happen only if there is no other way and the benefit justifies the cost. Cf

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